Comments on: Reminder: You Can Uninstall or Disable Most of the Bloatware in ICS on the RAZR

By: Denise Marie

Denise Marie — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 04:44:00 +0000

how do you disable those bloatware apps?

By: Denise Marie

Denise Marie — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 04:42:00 +0000

I HATE IT!! I’m so unhappy with the update ice cream sanwich on my droid razr! I’m having conflicts with the draw something application, my photo’s aren’t uploading to my photobucket album, and the sound controls are screwy and not working right! I get error update messages all day, over and over. This phone is only a few months old. Can I uninstall the update? I will hate to have to go to the verizon store AGAIN so soon :/

By: David

David — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 20:32:00 +0000

Only works on about half the crapware. It sucks that I have to root and rom reload my phone to get it to work as a phone without the junk.

By: Rex Rouis

Rex Rouis — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:39:00 +0000

Is there a list of all the bloatware programs and services that we can take off or disable that will not materially impact other programs? I would like to run down the list and put them out of my misery. I’ve gone in to see what is running and it is shocking. I didn’t turn 90% of them on.

By: Armaced

Armaced — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 21:24:00 +0000

You are clearly joking, but I am not hip enough to let everyone else figure it out for themselves.

By: Armaced

Armaced — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 21:17:00 +0000

Does not seem to work for the “My Motocast” app either. The “disable” button is greyed out of (ironic). For some reason this one offends me the most.

By: Linda

Linda — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 13:15:00 +0000

Just got ics download in Toledo Ohio!! Yay!!

By: i B TatTeD •_• !!

i B TatTeD •_• !! — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 06:21:00 +0000

I just got ics Charlotte nc

By: Knlegend1

Knlegend1 — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 20:06:00 +0000

why are there no downs on this post?

By: Len

Len — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 21:36:00 +0000

I don’t understand the big deal. If you don’t want to run them, don’t run them. They take up minimal space. They don’t take up battery life if you don’t run them. It’s pretty much a no-brainer. Also, you consider VZ Navigator bloatware? It blows everything else I’ve tried out of the water. Great app.

By: NAM37

NAM37 — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 14:55:00 +0000

This messes with your update path though. Been there… done that.

By: Raven

Raven — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:23:00 +0000

Personally, I don’t consider most of the preinstalled apps “Bloatware” unless they run in the background consuming resources. These preinstalled apps are just sitting in the system partition using otherwise unused/wasted space, so unless they are running and consuming resources (which is bad), what is the big deal. I rarely even notice them mixed in with my other 600+ installed apps.

By: lsanford22565

lsanford22565 — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:29:00 +0000

what is the list of the 25 apps so I can disable them?

By: Tyler Chappell

Tyler Chappell — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 06:24:00 +0000

That’s called rooting + uninstalling with Titanium backup. Ive done it for about 15 months now, otherwise you will be waiting until august-september to do that m8

By: evltwn

evltwn — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 23:46:00 +0000

App drawer yes, but you can still find it under manage your apps in the settings menu. At the very bottom of the list. That way you can re-enable the app if you changed your mind.